Creative Busyness

Today would have been my mom’s 77^th birthday. But last year, just after she completed 76, she passed. ☹

So today a silly story about her.

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Opossum

So, my mom used to lay down at the family room to watch TV and sleep in front of it. Then, it was normal to see us going there and trying to wake her up and tell her to go to bed. It was also normal that, without even opening her eyes, she would mumble something like “I’m not sleeping, just a minute” or “I’ll go soon, soon”, or else just simply “yeah, yeah”.

Some days we would insist until she got up and went to her bedroom, but others we wouldn’t, after all, she was the grown up and had the right to sleep wherever she wanted, right?

One of those days, she was still in the family room in the middle of the night, everyone else was sleeping on their beds, when she woke up to use the restroom. She got up, went to the restroom in the corridor, which was the closest to the family room, didn’t even bother to turn on the light, and sat down to pee. As the hot liquid started to squirt out of her, she heard splashing sounds.

What?

She releases a bit more and the splashing is there again, at the toilet. She gets up quickly, turns on the lights, looks at the toilet and screams.

We wake up and hurry to see what was happening.

An opossum was in the toilet, not too happy to have received a hot yellow shower.

Someone somehow managed to remove it, but by then we were all wide awake already.

We are not sure how the critter ended up there, but our guess was that it decided to go for a swim in the water tank and got lost in the pipes until it exited in our toilet, just to be pissed at (literally) by my mom.

Hard to tell who was the most scared that night. Hahaha

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Miss you, mom!

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PS. Last year, when I was in Brazil, I told this story to my cousin’s 4-year old daughter, and had to enact it several times with her. Each time each of us was a different character. Cute!